"I am pleased to vote for the rehearing order on the California ISO's market redesign
proposal or MRTU. On rehearing, we uphold most of the decisions we made in the
September 2006 MRTU order. Our emphasis has not changed, that is, ensuring
sufficient resources, fixing flawed market rules, increasing price transparency,
improving transmission congestion management, enhancing market power mitigation
and streamlining the ISO's daily operations to redesign a market so that it provides
adequate, affordable and reliable supplies of energy for consumers in the West.

This lengthy order shows that the Commission and its staff have made a concerted
effort to address the issues raised by the interested parties (public power, state and
federal governmental entities, IOUs, generators, industrial customers and others) in
order to enhance the California ISO's market. I know that we have received many
compliance filings and several more are to come that will move us to a better market
design in California and help benefit other parts of the Western region too.

I supported the Commission's decision to hold the technical conference in Arizona in
December of last year. I found that conference to be an excellent use of time
because the Commissioners and the interested parties engaged in an informative
dialogue. In summarizing the post-technical conference comments, today's order
reinforces what the Commissioners heard in Arizona: there are no operational issues
that need to be addressed prior to the start up of MRTU. We acknowledge that there
are seams issues in the West that have been in existence prior to MRTU, but
continue to find that these should not delay the improvements that MRTU will bring
to the region. I agree with today's order that encourages collaborative efforts
among stakeholders to mitigate or resolve seams issues."